Potato Wedges or French Fries?
 

Regardless of either being home made from scratch, bout to be oven cooked, or purchased at a fast food outlet....

Whats your choice?

I'm rapidly moving into wedges these days - Not for health reasons - They are just so much more flavourful :thumbsup

your not including chips (UK).

i say chips (UK) as in the usa i belive chips are crisps.

i am not sure they eat real chips in the uk.

but wedges are as close as you get to chops, but heather and have a more jacket potatoa flavour.

Which Is exactly why I DIDNT say 'Chips' :thumbsup

Wedges until there was a load of bad potatoes used to make them a few years ago and I couldn't tell through all the spicy coating on them that they weren't right.

the problem saying french fries is that they (in the uk) are made out of mush. they are not real chips.

it would be interesting to know if they each uk style chips in the usa as i am sure they are much better for you than fries.

http://www.stpeterspathfinders.co.uk...4/02/chips.jpg

Oh please tell me the difference between French Fries and Chips. Are they both not potato based?

Its a UK /USA thing - There is a legit difference. If you want me to explain it I will. If not, no probs - Saves me typing :)

These days, it's wedges for me...

Did not know about that :(

Only started eating them recently... :2 cents:

I would like to know. I thought they were the same as well. "Fish and chips" here is "fish and french fries."

Oh please do....

home made - wedges
restaurant - fries

OK, cool. Its kinda like this - Sorry if it gets long...

So.. In the USA a fried potato is normally referred to as a 'French Fry'

In the UK, Reconstituted / Extract is moulded into thin 'Fries' - And called a french fry. But buy a potato, cut into sections, fry it in oil... You have a 'CHIP'...

Think of it like this - The below is made from thin sliced REAL potatoes... WE call these 'Crisps'


http://i.imgur.com/BLQgPUx.jpg


But these Pringle things are also called 'crisps' but are made from reconstituted potatoes...


http://i.imgur.com/kK22FXw.jpg


Now to add to the confusion, what the USA calls 'Chips' are...


http://i.imgur.com/BLQgPUx.jpg


But we call them 'Crisps'... Like wise take these two pics below....


http://i.imgur.com/zobf9cJ.jpg


Those are greasy UK 'chips'... However, the thin ones below, that are made from Reconstituted Potato, as opposed to a REAL POTATO are 'French Fries...


http://i.imgur.com/TB38FzH.jpg

So basically, if you are going to eat fish and genuine potato fried in the USA you are eating what we eat - Or otherwise, you are not...

Its more of a UK thing than a USA thing... You call both French Fries - We differanrate between the the tow. and call chips chips, as opposed to calling crisps chips...

Hope it makes a bit of sense - :helpme

how much did you make playing cartman on south park? :helpme :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

if im eating a burger fries if it's pizza and wingsz wedges :2 cents:

NOTHING!!!! I filmed it for them, but then they decided I wasnt fat enough, and refused to pay :disgust:mad::Oh crap

i always prefer French Fries but at the end its all the same!

For making at home from whole potatoes then wedges are easier to just rub oil on, dust with seasonings and bake. Cut into approximately same size and you're OK to go.

BTW: I only called them french fries if they're cut into square profile. Otherwise I guess they're just fried potatoes.? Potato wedges? Home fries? (often done with caramelized onions) just eat them.

French fries are (well in the uk anyway) very thin, and such as mcdonalds i belive they are a sort of mush made into the shape.

while with chips (UK) they are cut potatoes.

your just big boneded

Walkers = Lays

Seaweed flavored Pringles??????????????

It is all reconstituted when it comes back out of you.

i like reconstituted... :thumbsup

how can you possibly compare these two things?

what's next, 'tater tots or baked potatos'

god in high school tater tots pizza and a large shake then off to the gym to lift weights.

i miss the days of higher learningz :(

i'm not one to trash fast food places but one thing i can't handle is the fries at places like burger king and mcdonalds. I know most people would say that all their food is terrible but their fries are just horrid and tasteless. Not to mention loaded with wax that doesn't seem to digest well. Keeps them from going rotten for a good 85 years though i'm sure.. hehe

I try not to eat either these days but I like both, would depend on what they go with.

US Potatoes
 

To end the confusion

In the U.S.

Potato Chips
http://i.imgur.com/k7J2H0b.jpg

Fried Potatoes –also in diced form
http://i.imgur.com/sbaJmCf.jpg

French Fries –crinkle cut
http://i.imgur.com/C5AanM2.jpg

French Fries –regular cut
http://i.imgur.com/rnADr6I.jpg

Shoestring Potatoes or Potato Sticks
Potato chips in a different form
http://i.imgur.com/zBGrqA0.jpg

Tater Tots
Difference with French Fries –crunchier outside, mushier inside
http://i.imgur.com/QuMFe53.jpg

Potato Wedges
http://i.imgur.com/ngTdbwB.jpg
Buy Fish & Chips in the US and get wedges.
It's a rare place in the US that would bake them. Almost all are deep fried. A few chips claim to be baked.

I heard something on Jim Hightower, that in the UK, Pringles came up with some crazy argument about their "crips" so they were taxed at a lower rate. I think it was in the UK they were claiming Pringles were sliced potatoes, where in the US they could never get away with that.

freedom with some worries but not a lot.

I like the steak potato wedges

Pommes Frites